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Sitting Shotgun

… but why do some Northern California drivers — about 1 in 750 by my unofficial tally — continue to roll around the ‘hood with their antiquated blue and yellow vanity plates on their newer model vehicles? Either explain your reluctance to conform or join the rest of us in the 21st century with our fancy white and blue license plates because it really bugs the heck out of me.

My parents still fly the old blue & gold on their 1980 Chrysler LeBaron Town & Country station wagon. But that’s not the embarrassing part.

The embarrassing part is — in true vanity plate fashion — they decided to compile the first letters of all the family’s first names to craft the plate, starting with my parents (Bob & Jan), my (at the time) new baby niece (Shannon), and the 3 Thylin daughters in ascending age order (Traci, Audrey & Robin).